TO THE CIA, HE IS A ROGUE, AN AGENT FOR NO ONE BUT HIMSELF.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000402830037-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: November 23, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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23 November 1981
TALKS ABO_ AT HIS Y
ALLEWANZ.
f nterpoi's only liken+ss of Wilson is the
old passport picture above. Grayer now,
Wilson keeps two pit goats In his ho+ns-
office HQ, a sooside villa in Tripoli.
To the CIA, he is a rogue, an agent for
no one but himself. To the FBI, he is a
much-wanted fugitive from justice. But
to the fanatical; outlaw regime of Lib-
ya's Col. Muammar Qaddafi, Edwin P.
Wilson, 53, is a precious ally. By his
own account, Wilson is nothing more
than a very successful middleman in
Libya's import-export trade. Yet he has
also served to whet Qaddafi's appetite
for military adventure by supplying
airplane mechanics and pilots for the
Libyan Air Force. Thefe is mounting
evidence, moreover, that his activities
have been not only unsavory but un-
lawful as well. A four-count ferderal In-
dictment handed down in Washington
last year charges that Wilson and busi-
ness partner Frank Terpil. another for-
mer CIA agent, supplied Qaddafi's
government with explosives, in viola-
tion of a federal arms shipment stat-
ute. They are also accused of conspir-
ing with a group of Cuban exiles to
assassinate an enemy of Qaddafi in
Egypt. "I am innocent of .all the
charges.`' says Wilson, but for the mo-
'Thera is an unmistakable alr.ot lntrlgti.
about Mr. Wilson and his operations," ob-
serves interviewerpeterhialatesta,left.
Kevin'Mulcahy, has charged that Wil-
son attempted to buy a ground-td-air
Redeye missile for Libya. Mulcahy
speculates that the weapon was in-
tended to bring down a Jumbo jet as an
incontrovertible demonstration of ter-
rorist might. Another of Wilson's for-
mer employees, ex-Green Beret Eu-
gene Tafoya, is currently on trial in.
Colorado for shooting a Libyan dissi-
dent there; Tafoya allegedly hid out of
ter the shooting in a house near Lon-
"He's done nothing to hurt the U.S: ' don which belongs to Wilson. John
ment he Is remaining in Libya, among The U.S. government disagrees; the Anthony Stubbs, a British pilot hired b'
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